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and as their wood feems to be greatly inferior to that of 
tlie common afh, there fliould be few of tliefe planted, 
becaufe they will only fill up the fpace where better trees 
might grow. 
FRAY, f. \.fffrayer, to fright, Fr.] A battle ; a fight : 
He left them to the fates in bloody fmy. 
To toil and flriiggle through the well lought day. Pope. 
A duel ; a combat : 
Since, if we fall before th’ appointedday, 
Nature and death continue long tlieiryToy. Denham, 
A broil; a quarrel ; a riot of violence : 
j’ll fpeak between the change of man and boy 
With a reed voice, and turn two mincing rteps 
Into a manly ftride; and fpeak of frays, 
Like a fine bragging youth. Shakefpeare. 
T^sFRAY. v.a. \_tffrayer, Fr.] To fright ; to terrify. 
—Thefe vultures prey only on carcafe>, on fuch Ifupid 
minds as have not life and vigour to jray them away. Go¬ 
vernment of the Tongue. 
{_Fraycr, Fr.] To rub.—A deer is faid to her head, 
when file rubs it againfi a tree. IVhalley's Notes oh B. Jonfon. 
FRA'YING,y; [from fray, v.] Peel of a deer’s horn : 
For by his Hot, his entries, and his port, 
'iWifrayings, fewmets, he doth promife fport. B. Jonfon. 
FRAYLES, an itland near liie coaft of New-Andalufia, 
Terra Firnia. 
FRAYLES (Los), a cluntp of rocks which rife above 
water on the fouih fide of the ifland of Sr. Domingo, in 
the Wefi Indies, four leagues north-weft of the itland of 
Beate, nearly oppbfite the ifles called the Seven Brothers, 
in the bay of Monte Chrift, on the north fide of the 
ifland. Thefe rocks are alfo called the Brothers or 
Monks. The rapidity of the currents renders this part 
of the coaft very dangerous. 
FRAY'PONT, a town of Germany, in tlie circle of 
WeftphaTTa, and biftiopric of Liege, on the river V/eze ; 
eight miles fouth-eaft of Liege. 
FRAZE, a town of F'ranee, in the department of the 
Eure and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Nogent-le-Rotrou : four leagues eaft of Nogent-le- 
Rotrou. 
FR A'ZERSBURGH. See Frasersburgh. 
FREAK,/! [/rre^. Germ, fancy, petulant; pfisc. 
Sax. fugitive.] A fudden and caufelefs change of 
place. A fudden fancy; a humour; a whim ; a capri¬ 
cious prank.—When th.at freak has taken pofleftion of a 
fantaftical head, the diftemper is incurable. DEf range. 
To vex me more, he took -0. freak 
To flit my tongue, and make me fpeak. Snxiift. 
To FREAK, v.a. To variegate; to checquer.—The 
white'pink and the panfy/r««/ii with jet. Milton. 
There fury nations harbour : 
Sables of gloffy black, and dark embrown’d. 
Or beauteous,with many a mingled hue. Thomfon. 
FRE'AKISH, Capricious; humourfome,—It may 
be a qiieftion, whether the wife or-the woman was the 
more freakijh of the two ; for file was ftill the fame uneafy 
fop. VEjlrange. 
FRE'AKISHLY, adv. Capricioufly; humourfomely. 
FRE'AKISFINESS, y! Capricioufnefs ; humourfbme- 
nefs ; vvhimficalnefs. 
To FREAM, w. K. [fremore, Lat. fremir, Fr.] To 
growl or grunt as a boar.. Bailey, 
FREAM, y! in agriculture, land that has been worn 
out with tillage and laid down to recover itfelf. Scott, 
FRECHIL'LA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Leon: feventeen miles north-weft of Palencia. 
FRECKEL'BEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxonv, and principality of Anhalt Deffau : 
thirty miles weft-fouth weft of Deffau. 
f RECK'ENHORST, a town of Germany, in the cir- 
F R E Of] 
cle of Weftphalia, and biftiopric of Munfter : one mile 
fouth-vveft of Warendorff. 
FRECK'LE,y! \_ flech, a fpot, Gerrti. whence fcckie, 
freckle.'^ A fpoi railed in the fkin by the fun : 
Ruddy his lifts, and frelh and fair his hue ; 
Some fprinklcd on his face were feen. 
Whofe dufk fet off the whitenefs of the flcin. D’'yd(n- 
Any ('mail fpot or difcolor.uion.—The farewell frofts and 
eafterly winds now fpot yourtuifps; therefore cover fuch 
with mats, to prevent/hcc/i/w. Evelyn. 
The cowflips tall her penlioners b-e ; 
In their gold coats fpots you fee : 
Thofe be rubies fairy favours ; 
In thofe freckles live their favours. Shakefpeare. 
Freckles are apt to affebl people of fine complexionSj 
who have red hair, more than others, in thofe parts 
expofed to the fun: in winter they generally difap- 
pear. Juice of lemons, mixed with fugar, and borax, 
finely powdered and digefted for eight days, forms an. 
ufeful cttnipofition for their removal. Homberg alfo re¬ 
commends bullock’s gall mixed with alum, and after tlie 
alum has precipitated, expofed three or four months in 
tl'e fun in a cloie vial, as one of tlie beft remedies for 
clearing the flcin from thefe appearances. 
FREf.’K'LED, adj. Spotted ; maculated ; difcolour- 
ed with final 1 fpots : 
Sometimes we’ll angle at the brook, 
freckled trout to take. Drayton, 
Now thy face charms ev’ry ftiepherd, 
Spotted over like a leopard ; 
And, thy freckled neck difplay’d. 
Envy breeds in ev’ry maid. Swift, 
FRECK'LY, adj. Full of freckles. 
FREiD. The fame with; upon which our fore¬ 
fathers called their fanctuaries fredjlole, i. e. the feats of 
peace. So Frederic is powerful or wealthy in peace ; 
Winfred, vidtorious peace ; Reinfred, finCere peace. Gib- 
fen's Cr.mden. 
FRED'DO, a river of Sicily, in the valley of Demona, 
which runs into the fea. 
FRE'DEBURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Lower Rhine, and duchy of Wellphalia : fourteen 
miles fouih of Brilon, and fifty-two eaft of Cologne. 
FREDEGA'IRE, firnamed the Scholajlic, the moft an¬ 
cient <'f the I'Vench hiftorians after Gregory of Tours, is 
fuppofed to have been a Burgundian by birth, and to have 
lived at leaft as low down as 658. Nothing is known of 
liis hiftory or profeffion. He compofed a Chronicle in 
five books, the firft four of w hich contain a chronological 
hiftory from the creation to the death of Chilperic I. the 
fifth brings down the hiftory to tlie fourth year of Clo¬ 
vis II. A.D. 64:. It has been continued by difFerenfc 
authors to 768. It is written in a barbarous ftyle, defec= 
'tive in conftrudtion and arrangement, yet it is indifpenfa- 
ble as authority for the hiftory of three of the early kings. 
This chronicle is printed in the Colleftions of Ancient 
Hiftorians, by .Dii Chefne and Bouquet. 
FREDEGON'DE, a woman famous in early French 
h’vftory for her political talents and her great crimes. She 
was the wife of Chilperic I. king of France. See the 
article France, vol. vii. p. 651. 
FRE'DELAND, a town of Pruftia, in Pomereiia; fixty 
miles fouth-fouth.weft of Dantzick. 
FRE'DENWALDE, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and Ucker Mark of Bradenburg.- eleven 
jniles-fouth of Prenzlow. 
FRED'ERIC, a proper name of men. 
FREDERIC THE GREAT, king of PrufTia, born at 
Berlin, January 24, 171a. He was baptifed by the name 
of Charles Frederic, but afterwards chofe entirely to drop 
the former of thefe names. When a child, he was com¬ 
mitted to the care of a French governefs, from whom he 
derived 
